Kids are like hydrogen—small and light,
And they swiftly collide, react, and ignite.
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The chance that your days veer off track, are erratic,
As functions of number of kids is quadratic!
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Whilst they are still young, hug your kids every day
’Cause soon entropy spurs their diffusion away.
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With kids, “highs are higher, and lows, they get lower.”
The thermo is great, but each task is much slower!
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Wanna see entropy’s strength in the making?
Show toddlers a leaf pile you spent all day raking!
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Whenever my work–life balance has lapses,
I just hug my son—that wave function collapses!
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Kids are like ’lectrons—essential yet small,
And I simply don’t get their behavior at all.
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Electrons and little boys bear some relation
’Cause neither one has a defined location.
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“The kids are so quiet now!” Rules adherence?
More likely: destructive interference!
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My daughter’s loving gaze and grin:
A thermodynamic global min.
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Mothers (like nuclides): we go through great fuss
To ensure that each daughter’s more stable than us!
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Adults like stability, calm—it’s a given.
Children, however, are entropy-driven.
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Quantum and parenting have me perplexed;
For both, I’ve no clue what is happening next . . .
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Chemists and parents, they go hand in hand;
Both try to control what they don’t understand.
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Are Dads merely catalysts? Chemists say, “Never;
They change their kids’ thermodynamics forever.”
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A toddler and fluorine are worth our comparing:
Both little, reactive, and not good at sharing!
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Diamonds and parenting: it’s a close call
On which is the hardest thing of all!
(These couplets all previously appeared in the book Thinking, Periodically)
